Senior Python Developer Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 695 582 721
Rank change year-on-year -113 +139 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 112 87 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.18% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.20% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 81 60 52
10th Percentile £62,500 - £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £95,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 106,427 44,033 73,876
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.62% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,226 25,764 44,965
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,131 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,319 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.85% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Python Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Python Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -103 101 £72,500 -6.45% 55
UK excluding London -53 58 £72,500 +20.83% 22
London -81 46 £75,000 -6.25% 42
Work from Home -45 41 £70,000 +9.38% 24
East of England -4 25 £72,500 -3.33%
North of England -46 15 £80,000 +33.33% 5
Midlands -40 10 £70,000 - 4
East Midlands - 10 £70,000 - 2
North East - 9 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 6 £75,000 - 4
North West -18 4 £80,000 +33.33% 2
Yorkshire -45 2 £66,250 +10.42% 3
South East -41 1 - - 5
South West - 1 - - 2

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 September 2026, Senior Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 112 (100.00%) Python
2 54 (48.21%) AWS
3 33 (29.46%) Software Engineering
4 32 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (26.79%) AI
5 30 (26.79%) CI/CD
5 30 (26.79%) RESTful
6 24 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 23 (20.54%) Validation
8 22 (19.64%) Azure
9 20 (17.86%) API Design
10 19 (16.96%) Event-Driven
10 19 (16.96%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (15.18%) Continuous Delivery
11 17 (15.18%) FastAPI
11 17 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (15.18%) Swagger
12 16 (14.29%) Agile
12 16 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (14.29%) Docker
12 16 (14.29%) Generative AI
13 15 (13.39%) JavaScript
13 15 (13.39%) Kubernetes
13 15 (13.39%) Observability
14 14 (12.50%) Mentoring
14 14 (12.50%) MongoDB
15 13 (11.61%) Kafka
15 13 (11.61%) Linux
15 13 (11.61%) RabbitMQ
15 13 (11.61%) React

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.68%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 54 (48.21%) AWS
2 22 (19.64%) Azure
3 11 (9.82%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (9.82%) Serverless
4 10 (8.93%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (4.46%) GitHub
5 5 (4.46%) SaaS
6 4 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.89%) GCP
9 1 (0.89%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.93%) Broadband
1 10 (8.93%) MQTT
2 3 (2.68%) 4G
2 3 (2.68%) 5G
2 3 (2.68%) DNS
2 3 (2.68%) HTTP
2 3 (2.68%) SSH
2 3 (2.68%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.79%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.96%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.68%) MySQL
4 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.68%) Redis
5 2 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.79%) GIS
6 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.89%) Milvus
6 1 (0.89%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Git
2 4 (3.57%) GitLab
2 4 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.68%) Selenium
General
1 15 (13.39%) Finance
2 13 (11.61%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.71%) Front Office
4 10 (8.93%) Games
4 10 (8.93%) Health Technology
4 10 (8.93%) Tech for Good
5 5 (4.46%) Banking
6 4 (3.57%) Publishing
7 3 (2.68%) Law
7 3 (2.68%) Legal
7 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Advertising
9 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (26.79%) RESTful
2 17 (15.18%) FastAPI
2 17 (15.18%) Swagger
3 13 (11.61%) Kafka
3 13 (11.61%) RabbitMQ
3 13 (11.61%) React
4 10 (8.93%) Flask
4 10 (8.93%) Node.js
4 10 (8.93%) OpenAPI
5 9 (8.04%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 9 (8.04%) HTML
6 7 (6.25%) CSS
7 6 (5.36%) Jinja
8 5 (4.46%) Pandas
8 5 (4.46%) REST
9 4 (3.57%) .NET
9 4 (3.57%) Next.js
9 4 (3.57%) Vue
10 3 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.68%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.11%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.61%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (10.71%) Algorithms
4 10 (8.93%) Data Structures
4 10 (8.93%) Low-Code
4 10 (8.93%) Video\Live Streaming
5 9 (8.04%) Equities
5 9 (8.04%) Hedge funds
5 9 (8.04%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.68%) Educational Technology
6 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.79%) Derivative
7 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.79%) NHS
7 2 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.79%) Robotics
7 2 (1.79%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.89%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.89%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.89%) Unix
2 1 (0.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (29.46%) Software Engineering
2 32 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 30 (26.79%) AI
3 30 (26.79%) CI/CD
4 24 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 23 (20.54%) Validation
6 20 (17.86%) API Design
7 19 (16.96%) Event-Driven
8 17 (15.18%) Continuous Delivery
8 17 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (14.29%) Agile
9 16 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (14.29%) Generative AI
10 15 (13.39%) Observability
11 14 (12.50%) Mentoring
12 11 (9.82%) Containerisation
12 11 (9.82%) DevOps
13 10 (8.93%) Clean Code
13 10 (8.93%) Intelligent Automation
13 10 (8.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 112 (100.00%) Python
2 15 (13.39%) JavaScript
3 13 (11.61%) SQL
4 10 (8.93%) Go
5 9 (8.04%) C++
5 9 (8.04%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.57%) Bash
6 4 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.79%) Rust
8 1 (0.89%) Bicep
8 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
1 2 (1.79%) Degree
1 2 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.71%) QA
System Software
1 16 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (13.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.68%) Grafana
2 3 (2.68%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.89%) Puppet